Etymograph

English

thorp

Thorp comes from Middle English thorp ‘a small village or settlement’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *trab-.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*trab-reconstructed
  2. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*þurpą‘village, rural settlement’reconstructed
  3. Proto-West Germanicc. 200–500 CE*þorp‘village, rural settlement’reconstructed
  4. Old Englishc. 450–1150þorp‘farm, village’
  5. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500thorp‘a small village or settlement’
  6. Englishearliest quotation 1600same form

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*trab-reconstructed
  2. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*þurpą‘village, rural settlement’reconstructed
  3. Proto-West Germanicc. 200–500 CE*þorp‘village, rural settlement’reconstructed
  4. Old Englishc. 450–1150þorp‘farm, village’
  5. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500thorp‘a small village or settlement’
  6. Englishearliest quotation 1600same form

Earliest quotation: 1600, Torquato Tasso, (please specify |book=1 to 20): “Within a little thorp I staid.”

Linked words

through Proto-West Germanic *þorp ‘village, rural settlement’

dorf, 1 more

Today it means

noun A group of houses standing together in the country; a hamlet; a village.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *trab- / thorp

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